CLOY


Meaning of CLOY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈklȯi ]

verb

Etymology: Middle English, to hinder, lame, alteration of acloyen to harm, maim, modification of Anglo-French encloer to nail, prick a horse with a nail in shoeing, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in + clavus nail

Date: 1528

transitive verb

: to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing

intransitive verb

: to cause surfeit

Synonyms: see satiate

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.